OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP
PUBLIC SERVICE APPLICATIONS
 
Draft Minutes of Meeting  :  1 February 1995
 
The meeting attracted around 50 attendees and was chaired by
Andrew Freeman (Dept of Immigration & Ethnic Affairs)
 
  Apologies    Neil Kennedy Kodak
               Sandra Henderson National Library
               Zara Struik ANU
 
1.        The meeting commenced with two presentations.
     a    Catherine Rebbeck from Computer Law Services who
outlined the opportunities possible with the Commonwealth
Toolbox. She explained that it is a toolbox for anyone who uses
Public Service related information and reference materials
 
     b    Ken Mitchell, Marketing Manager of the Australian
          Bureau of Statistics who provided an overview of the
          ABS marketing philosophy as well as a demonstration of
          CD products that they market.
 
2.   Introductions
 
          Mr Bill Chisholm provided an outline of the activities
of Hermes Precisa Ltd and gave a number of examples of where they
are working.
 
          Frank Wood of the Dept of Defence Publications outlined
the areas where his section had an interest.
 
          Tim Jones of Documenta gave a brief description of the
          activities of his organisation
 
          Ian Redpath of Brigalow Publishing stated the interest
his organisation has with multimedia Cd publishing.
 
          Vince Overs of SCSI introduced himself giving a brief
description of his company s interests (Optical storage &
networking CD)
 
          Alex Gillan of Reark Resources introduced himself and
described the areas where his company operated ( including
scanning services)
 
          Maxine Danaro of Purchasing Australia mentioned that
they had a CD catalogue of all common use contracts
 
          Roger Hargreaves of XEROX introduced himself mentioning
his company s interest in publishing on CD as well as paper.
 
          Phil Garvey of Neural Data Systems outlined his
companys activities in Canberra & Sydney
 
          Declan King from Australian Customs mentioned his
agencys interest in CD and the opportunities that still exist.
 
          Arthur Langford-Smith of the RMAA gave details of the
Storage Media and the Law seminar to be held on Wednesday, 29
March 95. Additional details are available from him by
Tele./Fax.: (06) 231 3444.
 
3.   The minutes of the December 1994 OTSIG meeting were adopted
without amendment. Andrew Freeman detailed the meeting schedule
for the remainder of the year.
 
4.   During general discussion Frank Wood asked whether
electronic forms were to be considered during the next meeting
(the subject of the next meeting is automated forms processing).
It was indicated that this will be considered by one of the
speakers at the OTSIG April 1995 meeting. Frank was encouraged to
provide input from Defence experience during the introductions
session/morning tea to those who have a particular interest in
this aspect of automated forms processing.
 
5    Date of next meeting was confirmed as Wednesday April 5 at
10.30 am at the Belconnen Library
 
6.   The meeting was closed at 12.15 PM.